Charity on October 26th, 2008

I was just looking at my site statistics and out of my last 500 hits from search engines (my log only shows the last 500), 125 came from searches for “Burton protest,” or some permutation. Plus, another 22 came from searches for the names of the women who organized it.
That search currently tops [...]

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Charity on October 24th, 2008

I am actually going to say something positive about Barack Obama. I know, I didn’t think it would ever happen either.
I saw the following Obama ad on a blog and I really liked it.

No, not the part about expanding early childhood education. That gave me the shivers. The liberal idea that the [...]

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Charity on October 22nd, 2008

SNL’s Lorne Michaels:
I think Palin will continue to be underestimated for a while. I watched the way she connected with people, and she’s powerful. Her politics aren’t my politics. But you can see that she’s a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first time out and she’s had a huge impact. [...]

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Charity on October 22nd, 2008

There is a protest planned for Burton Snowboards in Burlington this Thursday. In case you missed it, Burton has a line of snowboards featuring some pretty racy pictures of naked women and another line with drawings of some serious self-mutilation. Even though the two lines are offensive for different reasons, the protest [...]

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Charity on October 21st, 2008

By now you have heard about Joe the Plumber. Joe met Barack Obama on a campaign stop in Joe’s neighborhood and asked Obama a question.
Joe said that he works as a plumber. He wants to buy the business he works for and buy some more equipment, so he can employ some more people. [...]

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Charity on October 20th, 2008

I will be a guest on “The Blog Bunker,” on SIRIUS satellite radio’s Indie Talk channel 110, tomorrow evening. I will be on around 5:30pm eastern.
If you feel so inclined, you can sign up for a three day trial of SIRIUS internet radio.

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Charity on October 16th, 2008

Color me surprised.
The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
Reporter David Singleton was the first to report this allegation, based on his own account. News organizations all across [...]

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Charity on October 15th, 2008

Yes, we do. And I have been painfully neglectful about covering it.
There just aren’t enough hours in the day, people.
In Burlington, for some unnatural reason, we have ballot questions next month. Haven’t these people heard of Town Meeting Day? How can we be expected to research ballot items when we are spending [...]

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Charity on October 15th, 2008

I have always considered myself a Republican, but I have something more important than party loyalty to consider. I have to think about my two bi-racial sons. They will be personally impacted by racial attitudes in this country, and by extension, so will I. A mother hurts when her sons are hurt.
I [...]

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Charity on October 14th, 2008

So, tomorrow (Wednesday) is the last presidential debate. This one is supposed to be about domestic issues.
I think that McCain needs to focus on Obama’s tax plan. There is so much there that the media is giving him a free pass on.
For one, the 95% figure is off, according to analysts.
For two, his [...]

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